get it over the finish line? my understanding is that most of the ground work was already down by verde
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Not really true, fast sync != UTXO commitments
ehm, you're confusing yourself. a commitment is a commitment, it doesn't magically become real only if it's stored on chain
I'm not totally sure, but I think "fast sync" is some kind of thing the BTC guys are excited about because it's a different idea that doesn't require them to have cooperative protocol devs
the concept of commitment is basically a technical way to turn the entire utxo set into one single hash.
But we do need commitments to make Fastsync real, right? This is what I remember from the Fastsync discussion on BCH Research.
yes, with the neat feature that you can compute the hash of a slightly different set by just doing ec_add and ec_sub on the previous hash, instead of having to rehash the whole set
and that makes it possible to update hash of utxo set after each block is added, without affecting scalability
and that makes it possible to have _every node_ verify the hash matches the utxo state at the height, so people who use the snapshots can trustlessly verify their snapshot
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remove the miner validation.
OK, back to starting point.
miner validation is just giving a stamp of approval to the whole thing. It adds value. But is not needed.
utxo fastsync is downloading a snapshot and validating it against a hash that hash can have varying trust levels: - random internet source - your friend - trusted people publishing it somewhere - entire network publishing and verifying it in coinbase TX
yeah, if you synced off some wrong state, maybe your node will stay in sync for a while, until someone spends an utxo you already thought was spent - at which point you'd get forked
notice that no full node is capable of that today. (ref) That is still a LOT of development that needs to be done. Adding it to the consensus well before anyone did that work and people showed an interest in that work is at best premature (think CTOR optimization).
Yeah, this is the "bad" part. Damn, crypto is hard. I can hardly even follow what is happening now.
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